About the project
The project was conducted in partnership with experts in historical and cultural studies in Norway and Germany, and focused on how the image of the Jew was constructed in Norwegian public life in the period from 1814 to 1940. The project’s timeframe started with the adoption of Article 2 of the Norwegian Constitution in 1814, which denied Jews access to the realm, and ended with the invasion and occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany in 1940.
Steering committee
Project manager Christhard Hoffmann
Project coordinator Øivind Kopperud
Professor emeritus Einhart Lorenz
Research adviser Vibeke Moe
Three doctoral research fellows and ten master's degree students were involved in the project. Three workshops and one major international conference were staged per year. The bulk of the project’s funding came from the Research Council of Norway. The project was completed in 2012.
Doctoral theses
| Øivind Kopperud |
Jøden som kulturell konstruksjon i Den norske kirke 1864-1920 [“The Jew as a Cultural Construct in the Church of Norway 1864–1920] |
| Lars Lien |
“… pressen kan kun skrive ondt om jøderne”. Jøden som kulturell konstruksjon i norsk dags- og vittighetspresse 1905-1925 [“... The press can only write bad things about the Jews”. The Jew as a Cultural Construct in Norway’s daily newspapers and comic magazines 1905–1925”] |
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Ragnhild Henden |
Jøden som kulturell konstruksjon i norsk litteratur 1814-1940 [The Jew as a Cultural Construct in Norwegian Literature 1814–1940] |
Master´s theses
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Kjetil Simonsen |
«Den store jødebevægelse» Antisemittiske bilder av jøden i bondeavisene Nationen og Namdalen, 1920-1925 [“The Great Jewish Conspiracy” Antisemitic images of Jews in the farmers’ newspapers Nationen and Namdalen, 1920–1925] |
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Andreas Snildal |
En jødisk kulturadel. Tyske kultursionister og forestillinger om «østjøden» 1897-1923 |
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Tone Njølstad Slotsvik |
«Alt for Norge. Ikke ogsaa for katoliker?» Den katolske minoriteten i Norge 1905-1930 |
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Alf Magne Sirevåg |
Henrik Wergeland sin kamp for jødane i den norske minnekulturen 1845-1945 |
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Chalak Kaveh |
«Sigøynerplagen». Kontinuitet og brudd i tysk sigøynerpolitikk 1929-1938 |
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Åsmund Gjerde |
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| Katharina Bock | Blühende Dornenzweige – Henrik Wergelands Gedichte und der «Judenparagraf» in der norwegischen Verfassung |
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Ingvild Leite |
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| Iris Kvellestad |
Motreformasjonens avantgarde. En kartlegging av norske holdninger til jesuittordenen på 1900-tallet |
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Jan A. Brustad |